Prologue

May 2020s

Rachel and Eddie Lawson had been married for 11 years and lived with their 2 daughters Zara and Katie. They had got together under strange circumstances, Eddie having been engaged and almost married to Rachels sister Melissa. After Melissa had left, Eddie and Rachel finally realised their true love for each other, they got together and very quickly got married. However things were about to get extremely complicated when Mel finally came back with a large bump.

Mel gave birth to her little girl on her own before abandoning her on her sister's doorstep, she then left knowing that Eddie and Rachel needed and deserved each other, she had already ruined everything with her sister. Mel went on the run again, but sadly crashed her car on the way to catch a ferry to Calais.

Rachel and Eddie found baby Zara on the doorstep with a letter from Mel, only to be told a few hours later that Mel had died. Rachel and Eddie decided the best thing would be for them to adopt Zara. A few days after the adoption Rachel realised, she was pregnant and soon they had another baby girl, Katie.

Rachel and Eddie decided that living in Rochdale would have too many bad memories and soon moved to Scotland, they moved to a small town on the West Coast of Scotland about 40 minutes from Glasgow and took over a local school, Calderbrae high school. The school had started as a small high school until around 5 years ago when a lot of new housing was built in the area, this was now a large high school.

Rachel and Eddie had decided that Zara and Katie would be brought up as sisters (they had the same Dad after all), no one here knew who they were and the could start a fresh life. Philip was happy to go along with this, he knew that having a normal loving family was what was most important and this meant his sister could have this.

After Philips brief marriage to Michaela White, he and Danielle finally saw sense and got together. Bolton and Michaela realised that they wanted to be together, they still lived in Rochdale, but Philip made regular trips to visit his Aunt and Uncle. He and Danielle had both become teacher's, Danielle taught English and Philip Technical studies.

Hope you like the idea of this fic, it's been a while since I watched Waterloo Road.